Full article here.
Microsoft’s “Mac Office Loves Your Money,” er… “Mac Office Loves You” contest page explains:
To enter you must be a registered account holder of Twitter.com. You can enter one of two ways:
Follow @officeformac or retweet @OfficeforMac and include the hashtag #officeformac. Only one retweet will be counted per person.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Remember that the CEO of the company trying to get you to buy Office for Mac is the same exact clown who insinuated that you are an idiot for spending “$500 for an Apple logo” by purchasing a Mac in the first place, not to mention intentionally stripping the Mac version of the product of functionality in order to maintain his company’s operating system’s grip on corporate market share. Enter to win, by all means, but we wouldn’t buy Microsoft’s Office. Ever.
Many people believe they need Office, but, in reality, most don’t. Do you need Microsoft Office or do you just think you do? Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’09 trial a try and find out.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
What’s a twitter?
What’s a twitter? It’s someone who is in the process of becoming a twit.
I bought iWorks and gave it a two month tryout. It was a waste of money. Numbers may be great for the person that wants to add a column of numbers and make it look pretty, but it’s useless to the person that uses spreadsheets extensively everyday.
@Gregg
agree, numbers has potential but it’s calculation options may need years to catch up to Excel. Wish I could use it but I need to iterate a circular reference but numbers can’t handle that right now.
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“same exact clown” made me laugh
Entered!
Hey, might not need Office for my mac, but will take a free Mac from those clowns anyday
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As long as Office isn’t pre-installed. One less thing for me to have to do.
Why no love for the UK?
What’s this twitter thing? And people still work with numbers and spreadsheets for a living? Ewww
No love for Quebec too…
Stupid Loto Quebec.
It would be funny if they stripped out OS X and replaced it with Windows 7… oh that would be funny…
I gave up on Office a LONG time ago. I have since been an iWork fan, and have converted many of my family and friends over to iWork. And yes, I have a “Corporate Job” – working out of my house. While the rest of the Company uses Windows based machines and Office, I use a Mac and iWork at my home office. There are no problems with converting back and forth between the two suites of productivity products.
I’d LOVE to win MS’s Macbook give away. I’d promptly remove Office and install iWork.
@Greggs Thurmans: It’s iWork, not iWorks. (Getting really bugged about that.) And even if iWork doesn’t work for you, there are other Office alternatives out there.
However, for the chance at a MacBook Pro, following on Twitter is easy enough…
Gregg T, there are three programs in iWork, just like there are … four? … in Office. Numbers does a fine job for my needs and I have yet to “need” a function it does not offer. Same with Pages, same with (in my quite limited experience) Keynote. I am not saying any ONE of these programs can go head-to-head against their Office equivalents in a seriously complex situation, but they don’t cost as much, either. Nor do they use nearly as many of your computer’s resources. Nor does your average person need hours and hours of training to use them properly. You need Excel. Use it.
@Switcheroo: Everyone uses numbers in their lives; I’m considering dragging my MacBook to my inlaws’ to help me get a better picture of their financials. If you’ve got a job that pays more than minimum wage, you need to be keeping track of that money somehow…
I wouldn’t let Steve Ballmer give me a Macbook Pro even if he promised to ‘pleasure’ me for it…
I don’t want that nasty mouth anywhere *near* my private bits. Just sayin’…
DLMeyer,
Keynote absolutely blows away PowerPoint in terms of functionality and ease of use. Although, the most current PowerPoint version catches up quite a bit in terms of functionality, but it still takes 2-3 times as long to do something in it vs. Keynote.
My 3 cents. I felt generous today.
Google Docs all the way… I tried so hard to love Pages but it just sucks. Any word processor that doesn’t revolve around HTML and CSS does not belong in the 21st century, Word included.
Ha that’s sooooooo funny
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@Gregg Thurman
I am interested that you say that you find Numbers useless for your requirements. Can you provide examples of where it falls short? I switched to iWork some time ago and haven’t, as yet, found any functionality shortfall… The initial release didn’t include password protection, which I need, but that is now in the current release…
Sounds like someone needs to create a functions plug-in pack for Numbers.
MS Office? in the Mac? are they still doing it? well, long time no hear about it. My iWorks does all I need just fine, faster and cheaper.
I use both office and iWork, the one thing I raealy miss in iWork is cell locking. I built a math sheet for my daughter and put in a cell that tells me\her if the answer is right or wrong and she alwas seems to mess up the formula.
I`d enter just for the MacBook. If I win I`ll take the laptop and dump M$ Orfice into the trash.